didactic fiction

The story of a gifted young architect, his violent battle against conventional standards, and his explosive love affair with a beautiful woman who struggles to defeat him.

Unicorn and Yeti are still a little new to the friendship-thing, but they are trying hard to work out how to share the things they like to do, for instance taking turns on a swing, or sharing a sparkly rock--or combining the peaches that Unicorn likes with Yeti's ice cream to make a special treat they can share together.

A graphic novel with facts about prehistory in which funny, fierce, and socially awkward dinosaurs battle for survival while dealing with friends, parents, and everyday difficulties.

Recounts the experiences of two families--Gee, a black teenager and his mother Jade, and Noelle, a half-white, half-Hispanic teenager and her mother Lacey May--whose lives intersect when a referendum passes allowing black students to be bussed to a predominantly white North Carolina high school.

Tess Durbeyfield attempts to restore her family's fortunes by claiming their connection with the the aristocratic d'Urbervilles. After Alec d'Urberville seduces her and makes her life miserable, she meets and falls in love with Angel Clare.

"[This novel] follows the life, loves, foibles, and politics of the residents of a fictional English town set amid the social unrest during the Industrial Revolution"--Provided by publisher.

Hester Prynne, a young woman in seventeenth-century Massachusetts, is condemned by Puritan law to wear a scarlet "A" as the symbol of the sin she committed.

A young Dominican American girl in New York City moves from jealousy to empathy as her parents babysit children whose families work the overnight shift in this picture book debut. Night after night, a young girl watches her mami set up a cot in the living room for guests in their Washington Heights apartment, like Raquel (who's boring) and Edgardo (who gets crumbs everywhere). She resents that they get the entire living room with a view of the George Washington Bridge, while all she gets is a tiny bedroom with a view of her sister (who snores). Until one night, no one comes, and it's finally her chance! But as it turns out, sleeping in the cot in the living room isn't all she thought it would be. A celebration of the ways a Dominican American community takes care of one another while showing young readers that sometimes the best way to be a better neighbor is by imagining how it feels to spend a night sleeping on someone else's pillow.

The story of American slavery and Uncle Tom, a black man who never lost his dignity under the most inhumane circumstances.

After Beau Boutan, a Cajun farmer, is found shot on a Louisiana plantation, the claimants to the killing form a wall of protection around the real murderer.